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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …

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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market: Effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012

examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …

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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013

employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established … different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …

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Acculturation identity and labor market outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - 2007

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...

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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU: an East-West comparison

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2008

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...

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Do poor children become poor adults? Lessons from a cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility

Corak, Miles - 2006

A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...

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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices

Karoly, Lynn A.; Schröder, Carsten - 2013

The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is...

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Sliding into poverty? Cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age

Williamson, James; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study database. We investigate the change of private income and...

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Two worlds of retirement income: A comparative analysis of retirement-income outcomes using the Luxembourg Income Study

Lomax, Kevin; Gran, Brian - 2003

This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...

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Gender, household and individual income in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA and the UK

Rake, Katherine; Daly, Mary - 2002

This paper examines gender differentials in the resources of households and individuals across seven welfare states. In its first part, it asks whether female-headed households can secure a living income without recourse to either the state or the income of a male partner. It then steps inside...

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